Followers imagine they could have proof to help the theories that Taylor Swift's new track “Opalite” is a reference to Travis Kelce's ex Kayla Nicole.
A resurfaced clip of Nicole, 33, and Kelce, 35, out to dinner appeared on social media. In keeping with an X put up seen by Us Weekly that has since been deleted, Nicole could be seen filming a video of herself whereas holding a glass of wine. Kelce was seemingly irritated as he requested his then-partner if they may go away.
“Oh, my God. Get off your telephone,” Kelce mentioned. “Get off your telephone. … You're not even consuming your wine anymore, can we go?”
Nicole, for her half, laughed it off.
Nicole and Kelce dated on and off from 2017 to 2022 earlier than the soccer participant linked with Swift, 35, after attending her Eras Tour live performance in Kansas Metropolis. Swift and Kelce started relationship in summer time 2023 and made their relationship public when the pop star attended her first Kansas Metropolis Chiefs sport that September. Earlier this 12 months, Swift and Kelce bought engaged after two years of relationship.
When Swift dropped her latest album, The Lifetime of a Showgirl, on Friday, October 3, followers gave “Opalite” a detailed pay attention, figuring it could be about Kelce as it's his birthstone. Whereas the third monitor is about discovering The One after a sequence of heartbreaks, followers have been fast to choose up on a line seemingly referring to Nicole.
“You couldn't perceive it / Why you felt alone / You have been in it for actual / She was in her telephone / You have been only a pose,” Swift sings. “And don't we attempt to love love / And provides all of it we bought / You lastly left the desk / And what a easy thought / You're ravenous 'til you're not.”
Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift Gotham/GC Pictures
The resurfaced clip of Nicole and Kelce seemingly matches Swift's description of an individual relationship a companion whose consideration is on their system. The point out of the leaving desk additionally factors to Kelce desirous to rise up and go.
Earlier than The Lifetime of a Showgirl's launch, Kelce teased that “Opalite” was considered one of his favorites off the brand new document.
“I believe ‘Opalite' could be my favourite, although, at the very least proper now,” Travis informed his cohost and brother, Jason Kelce, throughout an August episode of their “New Heights” podcast. “Each time it comes on, I all the time catch myself.”
After the album dropped, Swift confirmed that “Opalite” was nonetheless Travis' favourite track throughout a Friday look on the U.Ok.'s Capital FM radio station.
“He loves that one,” she shared. “I've favourite phrases, favourite phrases [and] issues I'll put in an countless file of lyrics that I'm always going to go and cherry-pick from after I'm writing.”
Swift additionally gave some perception into the which means behind the monitor.
“I had written down the phrase ‘opalite' as a result of I discovered that it's really a man-made opal,” she mentioned. “Opal could be man-made similar to diamonds. Travis' birthstone is an opal, so I've all the time fixated on that, and I've all the time beloved that stone. And I assumed it was type of a cool metaphor that man-made opal and happiness may also be man-made too.”
